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In the Grimm tale, "The Water of Life" a dwarf helps the hero obtain the life-saving liquid to save his father, the King.

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The ISLAND OF AVALON
a legendary island where King Arthur's sword Excalibur was made & later where Arthur was taken to recover from being gravely wounded at the Battle of Camlann.
Avalon is also associated w/ mystical practices & Morgan le Fay.

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Sina was famous around the South Seas for her beauty. The King of Fij heard of her beauty and decided he had to meet the beautiful one. By magic, he transformed into an eel and swam to her island home.

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A sultry to all. Not quite a fairytale but a lovely children's story...

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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable cites a watering hole as:

a pool where animals drink, or in human terms, a favourite pub or bar.

The latter looks more appealing today.



🎨Willy Pogany

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His daughter it is who keeps poor Odysseus pining there, and who seeks continually with her soft and coaxing words to beguile him into forgetting Ithaka

~ Homer



Mercury Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus, by Gerard de Lairesse

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“The Ceffyl Dŵr or water horse is a superstition common...to all the Celtic race...An evil spirit, who...would induce the unwary stranger to mount him and soaring over river and mountain would suddenly melt into...mist and precipitate his rider to destruction”

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Once in Romania, if a funeral procession passed by, all containers of water would be covered, since the soul, being hydrotropic, might fall into one and drown...

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'... they loved the River, and often swam in it ... they took a boat and went down to the Gladden Fields, where there were great beds of iris and flowering reeds ...' Fellowship of the Ring. 🎨 WilliWeissfuss https://t.co/SxwpZFy8AC

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The tale "Julnar of the Sea" tells of a Persian king who falls in love with a new concubine, described as having a face like the moon & long black tresses. The concubine, Julnar, reveals she's a mermaid princess from an underwater kingdom.

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All the world will be your enemy…But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.

—Watership Down, Richard Adams✨

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I'd give an awful lot to be the kind of princess who has her hair combed by hummingbirds...


by Danny Roberts

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“There’s risks associated with loving another, but just as it takes commoners extraordinary courage to live their lives, it takes courage to love another person. I happen to be of the opinion that the risk is worth it”
K.M. Shea, Puss in Boots

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First, he steals crocodile’s eggs, then water from Gbongosso and fire from Baaoue. Tere, the divine trickster of the Manja and Banda (CAR) is usually up to no good! But when he challenges an old woman to fight, he learns an important lesson.

🎨: Rodney Wimer

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Filipinos know the dreaded trickster, the tikbalang: a tall humanoid with the head and feet resembling a horse. It prefers woodlands, were it could hide and shapeshift, in efforts to deceive humans who wander lost.

Image from Puerto Parrot

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“A lady, with whom I was riding in the forest, said to me, that the woods & the fairies always seemed to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer has passed onward”

~ R.W. Emerson

📚🎨 Margaret Tarrant

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They loved each other but couldn’t be together. Pyramus & Thisbe were young and grew up next door to one another, yet, because of a feud between their families, they had to keep their short lived love a secret.

~ Metamorphoses, Ovid

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The Wulgaru is what happens when you try to create a golem from an ancient tree. It is a devious and wicked being who attacks any human it sees and is incredibly fast for its size. It is so terrified of fire though, even light from fire scares it.

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🌿🍄🌿Puck or Robin Goodfellow is a trickster and mischievous Fae sprite from English folklore, famously featured in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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